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Friday, 14 November 2025, at 7.00 p.m. and 8.00 p.m., the Museo dell’Ospitale Santa Francesca Romana in Rome will host Perché poi sarà troppo tardi (Cinque visioni), an original performance by Silvia Giambrone, produced by Studio Stefania Miscetti.

The audience will be invited to enter the Church of Santa Maria in Cappella and follow a route to the first floor of the Ospitale, where Silvia Giambrone constructs a dramaturgy that explores the meaning of the sacred and its embodiment throughout history, across different traditions and cultures, in a vision that reconnects with the urgencies of the present.

To create the performance, Silvia Giambrone, following a visit to the Ospitale, drew inspiration from the life and figure of Saint Francesca Romana (1384–1440), patron saint of the city, who devoted herself to charity and the care of the poor precisely in this very place, embodying a model of faith that was both mystical and concrete.
The performance takes shape as a site-specific project, conceived in response to the suggestions offered by the space: the great hall of the Museo dell’Ospitale, in the wing designed by Andrea Busiri Vici in 1854, that once welcomed patients and the needy, and which today, transformed into a museum, preserves and renews its vocation for hospitality, becoming fertile ground for dialogue between memory and contemporaneity.

The artist has selected texts of various kinds, from the twentieth century to the present day, drawing on Christian Catholic, Muslim, Jewish, secular and atheist cultures, yet finding in mystical tension a common thread. Among these are the writings of Clarice Lispector (1920–1977), the Ukrainian-born Brazilian writer, journalist and translator, from whose work the title of the performance is taken, and the book We Still Have Words by Azdyn Amimour, father of one of the Bataclan terrorists, in dialogue with Georges Salines, father of one of the victims.

This initiative forms part of Studio Miscetti’s programme, in continuity with its history and practice: not only interventions within the gallery space, but a direct encounter with the city, its places, architectures and stories. It aims to activate and make known the historical heritage through contemporary art, creating connections between past and present, between the intimate dimension of the museum and the collective dimension of urban space.

The performance lasts approximately 20 minutes, and booking is required at info@studiostefaniamiscetti.com until all places are filled.

artist.

Silvia Giambrone, who both lives and works between Rome and London, works about both the physical and invisible evidences of the strong connection between violence ad the ‘subjectification’ process.
She Wins the 2019 VAF Award, the most important prize for young Italian artists.
She is an ambassador for Kaunas European City of Culture 2022.

Some of her exhibitions include: W Women in Italian Design, Triennale Design Museum, Milan (2016); Corpo a corpo, La Galleria Nazionale, Rome (2017); Terra mediterranea: in action, NiMAC, Nicosia, Cipro (2017); Walleyes. Looking at Italy and Africa, Keynes Art Mile, Johannesburg (2019); VII Premio Fondazione VAF, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany (2019); Sovvertimenti, Museo Novecento, Florence (2019); Nobody’s room. Anzi, parla, Museo del Novecento, Milan (2020); Hall of Shadows, Dior show FW2021, Versailles Castles, France (2021); Reclaiming and Making: Art, Desire, Violence, Museum Of Sex, New York, NY (2022); INTERTWINGLED, La Galleria Nazionale, Rome (2022); Female Feedback Film Festival, Los Angeles / Toronto (2022); Tokyo Film Award (2023); Sexually explicit content, PAC, Milan (2023); Reise nach Italien, Goethe Institute, Rome (2023) and Italian Istitute of Culture, Berlin (2024); Giorni felici? Fondazione Merz, Palermo (2024); La Passione, Fotogalleriet, Oslo (2024); Annotazioni video, Italian Istitute of Culture, Tirana, Albania (2025); Silenzi Eloquenti, Biblioteca Beato Pellegrino, Università di Padova (2025); Identities beyond borders, Italian Istitute of Culture, Berlin (2025).

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